Catholics around Atlanta share mixed feelings on faith and politics as Trump engages in rhetorical war with pope
Alex Sullivan tended to his five children on the lawn after a traditional Latin mass at the Catholic Church of Saint Monica in Duluth, Georgia, and contemplated his faith in the light of God and the shadow of Donald Trump.
Sullivan, a self-described conservative who once staffed a libertarian state representative at the Georgia capitol, described his faith as almost medieval.
Trump got “over his skis a little bit” in his criticism of Pope Leo XIV, but Sullivan said he rejected the idea that the US president’s comments in response to pontifical criticism of the war in Iran might diminish his opinion about the leader of the Catholic church.
“No, I will not support the pope any less,” he said. “There have been times in the past when this pope or the prior pope have done things that I struggle with. Usually I have to pray about it, and sometimes I have to be OK with not being OK with what he said and just living in that tension.”
